 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 pagina’s
...this ancestral park. " The generall end of all the booke," wrote Spenser of the " Faerie Queene," " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." And who but Sidney was his model? He "impressed his own noble and beautiful character deeply on Spenser's... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1906 - 594 pagina’s
...aristocratic intention is openly acknowledged. " The generall end of all the booke," wrote Spenser, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." 1 The problem was held to be of paramount importance, and many a treatise in Latin, Italian, French,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pagina’s
...would otherwise have remained obscure. " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke," he says, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. ... I chose the historie of King Arthure, as most fit for the excellencie of his person, beeing made... | |
 | Howard Maynadier - 1907 - 480 pagina’s
...thought good ... to discover unto you the geiierall intention and meaning. . . . The generall end . . . is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. Which for that I conceived shoul.de be most plausible and pleasing, beeing coloured with an historical!... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 312 pagina’s
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned. The generall end therefore of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, beeing coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 610 pagina’s
...as " a continued Allegory, or darke conceit," must have its general intention clearly set forth : it is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Such a moral, the poet goes on, should be " coloured with an historical] fiction, the which the most... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1908 - 438 pagina’s
...portrait of Kjartan may look as if it were designed, like the portrait of Amadis or Tirant the White, " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Sometimes the story is involved in the ordinary business of Icelandic life, and Kjartan and Bolli,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 288 pagina’s
...of Wisedome." The Faerie Queene is the flower of the school in England, with its confessed attempt " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" by uniting "the twelve private morall vertues" of Aristotle with the graces of chivalry. There is a... | |
 | Christopher Hare - 1908 - 352 pagina’s
...pupil's requirements. It is curious to find Spenser telling us that the aim of his "Faerie Queen" was "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," by showing how the twelve moral virtues of Aristotle are set forth in the lives of twelve knights.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1908 - 896 pagina’s
...expressing of any particular purposes or by accidents therein occasioned. •' The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person ill vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing,... | |
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The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
